Me

We're battling a cold at my house.  Seryozha was up all night long, feverish and wanting to nurse.  Although it is morning and I would normally have been up for a couple of hours I'm sitting, groggy, on my bed.

I'm hitting my stride at mid-semester.  Anatomy and physiology, while never easy, is fitting together and I've realized a good study strategy.  I just received a 104/100 on a math exam, which is a huge deal for me.  My others classes are also going well.  I have a psychology exam Tuesday and three papers due in my Exposition and Persuasion class Thursday so I need to remember to fit those in this week (because of the nature of a&p and because I have math twice a week it seems like those classes overshadow the other two).

In addition, the kids are getting into a groove of me being less "present".  This is hard for me because I've always been such a hands-on parent who strives to be present.  I've really had to learn to let go and to allow other people to take on larger roles in the kids' lives and that's okay.  I'm learning that, particularly perhaps in a large family, that I have to make decisions that are not only best for each individual person but best for us as a whole and that those changes can be fluid and flexible and I don't have to be tied down to any one choice that I made for one child even though something else would work better for a different child and whatnot.

In homeschool news, Liza and Alyosha still love Adventure Camp.  Misha may be taking a homeschool hybrid class at a local private Montessori school, which I think will be good for him.  He ends up getting left out of a lot of fieldtrips because of his attention issues and stuff.  Seryozha should be starting a three-day-a-week preschool here soon; it's only one hour and fifteen minutes three days a week but should give me a chance to have some one-on-one school time with the older kids.  He is just such a busy sort of boy that, as soon as I get Misha focused to do his work, I'm up to get him off the ceiling or something.  Then I've lost everything I've done with Misha.  I think this will be good for everyone.